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Turkish Prisoners Struggle Against Transfers

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2001 by Julia Lutsky published in Prison Legal News August, 2001, page 18
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Hunger Strikes, Prisoners-International, Political Prisoners (International), Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement. Location: Turkey.
When the Turkish army stormed 20 prisons in December, 2000, a four-day pitched battle ensued during which thirty-two died _ 30 political prisoners and two soldiers. The army claimed that many prisoners set themselves afire rather than surrender; prisoners who survived allege that in at least one prison, Bayrampaga in ...

 

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